Robin Martin-Jenkins

Robin Martin-Jenkins
Personal information
Full name Robin Simon Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Born 28 October 1975
Guildford, Surrey, England
Height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium pace
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994–2010 Sussex
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 162 208 31
Runs scored 6520 1865 205
Batting average 31.04 15.04 14.64
100s/50s 3/35 –/3 –/1
Top score 205* 68* 56*
Balls bowled 21886 9104 625
Wickets 384 219 24
Bowling average 32.83 29.49 32.54
5 wickets in innings 6 – –
10 wickets in match – – –
Best bowling 7/51 4/22 4/20
Catches/stumpings 46/– 43/– 10/–
Source: , 22 January 2009

Robin Simon Christopher Martin-Jenkins (born 28 October 1975, Guildford, Surrey, England) is an English cricketer who played for Sussex CCC and British Universities. He is six feet 5 inches tall. He is the son of Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket writer and commentator. Martin-Jenkins was educated at Radley College and was in the same college house at the same time as cricketers Andrew Strauss and Ben Hutton. These three were among other successes in the first batch of 1997 at Durham University's pioneering Centre of Excellence for Cricket under former test batsman Graeme Fowler.[1]

He spent his entire first class career at Sussex CCC. He showed loyalty by staying at the club throughout the 90s when Sussex were generally unsuccessful with the club even finishing last of the 18 counties. He was a prominent member of both the 2003 and 2006 Championship winning teams. His experience meant that he was often used as a containing bowler as is evidenced by his reasonable economy rate. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and is a right-handed batsman who batted at around 7 or 8. He was generally known as a bowler who can bat as opposed to an all-rounder.

He retired from first class cricket amid much affection in Hove on 19 July 2010, in order to become a teacher at Hurstpierpoint College.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Cricket chiefs view success at the Centre of Excellence". Centre of Excellence for Cricket. Durham University. 21 November 1997. Archived from the original on 2004-09-27. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  2. ↑ wearebrighton.com (20 July 2010). "Robin Martin-Jenkins RMJ Farewell Speech Sussex Cricket". YouTube. Retrieved 18 September 2013.

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